Zintlhammer Castle

Zintlhammer Castle is very well preserved today

The listed Zintlhammer Castle (formerly also known as Sach (s) senreuth ) is located in the Zintlhammer district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Pressath in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district of Bavaria (Zintlhammer 25). This was also one of the hammer locks on the Haidenaab .

history

Zintlhammer is first mentioned in the Duke's Surbar of 1285 under the name Sachsenreuth in connection with fishing rights ( piscaria in fluvio Heydnab, ab ortu eiusdem fluvii usque Sachsenr (euth) ). A Sasse , that a resident has, here at the foot of the mountain Jews, the Naabufer reuten (= clear) can.

A rail hammer has been located here since the 14th century . In one of these, iron was extracted from the ore by smelting in a so-called pulling hearth and forged into rails or bars. In 1413, pintles were charged a grain interest . In the hammer letter of 1454, on the Friday before St. Martin's Day in 1454, Count Palatine Friedrich awarded Hainrichen Pehaltern , a citizen of Amberg , the hammer to Sessenreit with 2 half strokes to Pressath and with every affiliation, as Erhart Pollenreiter had owned and bought everything before . The taxes were to be paid to the chest at Kemnath . Also in the Salbuch of 1497 there is talk of a monetary interest from the hammer Sassenreuth . In 1497 it also says: Hans Vischer zu Hub gives 6 Schilling dl of the fishing water annually “which rises to Sassenreut near the old lime kiln and to Birkach ends on the Braiten Furth an der Trebitz near the village there”. Reymund Talkner is mentioned as another owner of the hammer in 1497 ; a later addition reads: Zinglhammer, gives now and Doctor Johannes Zingel . Weiland Johann Zingel , the Right Doctor and Electoral Palatinate Councilor of Amberg, was in charge of the work around 1520. The Hammerort was renamed after its name. He probably built the permanent hammer house, called the Schlößchen, next to the Hammerstätte. In 1551 and 1606 the place was spelled correctly Zinglhammer , the vernacular made it the Zintlhammer .

The Zingel was bought by Georg Kotz (named 1522), who also owned the neighboring Feilershammer and died before 1540. Of the three sons, Balthasar Kotz officiated as judge in Pressath in 1585, Jörg took over the Feilershammer and Hans Kotz , born in 1526, ran the Zinglhammer in 1551. Hans Kotz was granted a mill passage, which he could no longer build, "because God punished him at the same time with conflagration and hardship". While his charcoal burners went away for food and bread, they “managed to get by on fire twice, so that often two hundred and three hundred fathoms and more wood burned up in the forest”. In addition, “one night around Christmas, when all the grain and fodder in the barn, the same including all the cattle and many rooms (buildings) are fused up on the Zindelhammer, what loss Kotz complained about 500 fl at any time; later the great shower in 1574 killed all the grain in the field ”. Hans Kotz was “never a drunkard and gambler” but moved away from God's fate in 1577 “with empty hands”. He then stayed with Graf Schlick zu Neudeck , then in Waltershof and finally with his brother's son Sebastian Kotz zu Feilershammer, where he died childless in 1603 as a 77-year-old man "with a borrowed coat".

Martin Löw succeeded him as the owner. In 1578 he is the guardian of Jörg Kotzen's wards blessed at Feilershammer. In 1583 he reported to the Palatinate government "that the hammer Sassenreuth was one of the first erected hammers of the unification, indeed one of the first and oldest four hammers in the Palatinate". In 1583 he asked for a "single mill walk", which the other mill owners wanted to prevent. Despite a prohibition, he set up the mill on July 21, 1585. Löw offered to pay the interest like other millers and also to support the structural maintenance of Waldeck Castle . Thereupon Vizedom Joachim Graf zu Ortenburg approved the mill run for domestic use against 2 fl interest according to the reverse of August 27, 1585. Martin Löw sat in 1602 "carrying the Seel on his arm" and 73 years old in his "house in Zintlhammer". He estimated the Hammergut at 1,500 florins. At Whitsun 1603 he and his son Hans sold it to Sebastian Kotz and Löw moved to Pressath. Sassenreuth experienced a particular boom under Sebastian Kotz , who had also taken over the Feilershammer in 1596. 1596 is recorded: “Sassenreuth or Zintenhammer; is feasible ". In 1616 des Kotzen's Eidam Ernst Göschl managed the Zintlhammer. Most recently he rebuilt the hammer house in 1618/19, which had probably been in ruins for over 40 years since the fire. On May 19, 1618, he reported "that 136 logs of timber were given to him to rebuild his very necessary hammer house in Sassenreuth". Sebastian Kotz died in 1622 . In 1623 his son Hans Kotz appeared as "Schin and tin hammer master for Feilershammer and Zintlhammer". The Thirty Years War brought general ruin. In 1631, seven of the 16 sheet metal hammers of the Kemnath caste office were already empty. In 1651 it is said of Dießfurt, Troschlhammer and Pechofen that these hammers were burned down and that there are no longer any residents there. For Zintlhammer, Pentecost Sunday in 1633, when the Swedes laid Pressath in ruins, brought the standstill. The smithfires were then cooled down and the Zrennherde destroyed. The hammer family also died out in the male line. Hans Kotz died at the end of the war in 1648. By dividing the inheritance in 1650, the family estates were divided. The daughter Elisabeth Kotzin married Hans Schreyer, a citizen of Pressath, and received the Feilershammer, which they sold to the imperial Hartschier Georg Rambler of Vienna after two years . The other daughter was married to Georg Lindner in Pressath and inherited the independent Kalmer farm in Feilersdorf. The third daughter had taken the “lordly fiefdom of this district” Hans Georg Raidt as husband. As a councilor he lived in a fire place in Pressath, to whom the Zintl hammer was assigned. A note from 1666 reads: "Ain shin hammer, had completely perished at the hammer huts, the owner ... made a start, but because he hadn’t had enough information about this, so far he hasn’t completely dealt with it”. After Hans Georg Raidt , the owners of the barren Zintlhammer often changed. This was followed by Johann Jacob Weissmann and then Anna Margaret Schreyerin .

Around 1705, Veit Christoph Erdmann von Hirschberg auf Weihersberg was the buyer, who set up a wire-drawing factory in Zintlhammer in 1708 after approval from the Electoral Court Chamber in Munich . In 1714 it is said that Zindlhammer, a hammer property, "has now become viable again". After the early death of Veit Christoph Erdmann († July 27, 1709), the young Wittib Maria Katharina v. Hirschberg, née Freiin von Muggenthal, ran the wire mill. After the death of Maria Katharina († 1749), the only son Heinz Ernst von Hirschberg , who led an extremely wasteful life , seems to have taken over the Zintlhammer. He died on July 12, 1752, but had already sold the Zintlhammer beforehand. In 1751, captain Johann Ernst von Gravenreuth (who had also owned the nearby Troschlhammer ) is named here as the owner. Johann Ernst seems to have died around 1768 . The Zintlhammer estate was not desirable at the time, a note states that "between 1768 and 1781, five buyers one after the other took their prints there again". The last of these was Karl Heinrich von Hirschberg zu Weihersberg , who wanted the Hammergut to be elevated to a noble manor. The county judge had on July 6, 1781 granted the request, if not Karl Heinrich now be held are had already Hammergut the Speinsharter monastery Judge Konrad Joseph King would have resold, who also had Kötzersdorf with extinguishing joke. At his request, in 1785, Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria raised Zintlhammer to a ranks . In 1796, his daughter Barbara Susanna married Alois Tretter von Schwandorf, the successor to the judge's office in Speinshart, and Konrad Joseph retires. Karl Heinrich von Hirschberg zu Weihersberg was named after him as early as 1796 - as in 1781, as Landsasse von Zintlhammer. The wire pull had meanwhile gone and half of the Hammerhof including the mill house, the real mill, cutting saw and gun hammer justice was owned by the armourer Franz Joseph Maier . He died on September 30, 1823 in Zintlhammerlt. His brother Mathias Maier was the owner of the Feilershammer and died in 1827 as a resident of Zintlhammer.

Karl Heinrich von Hirschberg was only a few years Landsasse. In 1829 he wrote: "The whole Hammergut Sassenreuth had long since been bought by the star landlord Josef Stock zu Pressath, who broke it into three parts for his children". As early as 1814, "Josef Stock zu Zintlhammer was wealthy" was mentioned. On October 31, 1828, he handed over the Ökonomieschloßgütl with about 12 days of work to his daughter Margaret Stock , who was married to Georg Adam Kreuzer , butcher's son from Pressath. Kreuzer had learned to make cloth, so in 1829 he set up a "cloth knit" with four chairs in the Schloßgütl (house name "beim Tuchner"). Adam Kreuzer fled to America unexpectedly one day. On March 23, 1874, the left wife and delivery girl Margaret passed away . The only daughter of Margaret Kreuze r married Christoph Kohl von Birkhof and then Lorenz Oberndorfer von Eschenbach. As a result of his marriage to Anna Oberndorfer , Michl Hausner , the son of the Riggau landlord, came into the possession of the old Hammerhof in 1898.

Zintlhammer was always sovereign, in 1824 it belonged to Feilersdorf, in 1841 it was reclassified to the Eschenbach district court and in 1961 it was assigned to Pressath.

Zintlhammer Castle today

The former hammer house is a two-storey castle-like hipped roof building with plastered structures. The portal has a blown gable. The building dates from the 18th century, but is essentially older.

literature

Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. District judge's office Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath (p. 235). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 40). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 .

Individual evidence

Web links

49.777796 11.922078 431Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 11 ° 55 ′ 19.5 ″ E

[1] Pressath List of Monuments

[2] - an old iron hammer on gold Brunnenbach